{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-1999/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-1999/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/730",
  "legislation_title": "The Police (Conduct) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-conduct-regulations-1999",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Attendance of complainant at hearing",
  "text": "(1) This regulation shall apply where there has been a complaint against the member concerned.\n(2) Notwithstanding anything in regulation 26(1), but subject to paragraphs (3) and (5), the complainant shall be allowed to attend the hearing while witnesses are being examined, or cross-examined, and may at the discretion of the presiding officer be accompanied by a friend or relative.\n(3) Where the complainant or any person allowed to accompany him is to be called as a witness at the hearing, he and any person allowed to accompany him shall not be allowed to attend before he gives his evidence.\n(4) Where the member concerned gives evidence, then, after the presenting officer has had an opportunity of cross-examining him, the presiding officer shall put to him any questions which the complainant requests should be so put and might have been properly so put by the presenting officer or, at the presiding officer’s discretion, may allow the complainant to put such questions to the member concerned.\n(5) Subject as aforesaid, the complainant and any person allowed to accompany him shall neither intervene in, nor interrupt, the hearing; and if he or such a person shall behave in a disorderly or abusive manner, or otherwise misconduct himself, the presiding officer may exclude him from the remainder of the hearing.\n(6) In this regulation a reference to the complainant is a reference to the originator of the complaint notwithstanding that it was transmitted to the chief officer concerned by some other person or by the Authority or some other body.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/730/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:56:09.095338+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}